Azienda Ideale
Quante volte hai pensato di lanciare un'attivit? tutta tua per poi bloccarti sentendoti assalito da mille dubbi e preoccupazioni? Quante volte hai pensato che non ci fossero pi羅 soluzioni alle problematiche della tua azienda? Quante volte invece hai dovuto rinunciare al tuo sogno perch矇 non disponevi del capitale necessario? Che tu ci creda o meno, 癡 capitato praticamente a tutti. In quei momenti, siamo talmente preoccupati di ci簷 che potrebbe accadere al nostro progetto imprenditoriale da perdere di vista la realt? delle cose. Eppure, se ci pensi bene, se soltanto avessimo a disposizione le giuste informazioni, tutto sarebbe pi羅 semplice: saremmo in grado di valutare le cose dalla giusta prospettiva e, cosa ancor pi羅 importante, riusciremmo a prendere decisioni fondamentali in maniera serena e consapevole, senza vivere necessariamente di rimpianti. Se ti dicessi adesso che esiste un metodo testato, capace davvero di aiutarti a massimizzare le probabilit? di riuscita del tuo progetto imprenditoriale, ci crederesti? In questo libro, ti mostrer簷 l'esatta strategia che ti aiuter? a lanciare (o rilanciare) la tua attivit? anche senza soldi col Metodo VICS. COME NON DARSI DELLE SCUSEPer quale motivo il lavoro dipendente non 癡 mai stato cos穫 precario come in questo momento storico.Il segreto per vivere davvero le proprie emozioni senza lasciarsi sopraffare. COME RISOLVERE LE PROPRIE PAUREQual 癡 il mindset che ogni imprenditore dovrebbe avere.Per quale motivo il debito attivo 癡 utile all'azienda se generato ed utilizzato nel modo giusto. COME (V)ALUTARE IL PROPRIO SOGNOL'importanza di essere flessibili ed oggettivi durante lo sviluppo di un progetto senza innamorarsene perdutamente.Per quale motivo 癡 di fondamentale importanza effettuare una valutazione annuale del proprio progetto. COME (I)DEARE IL PROPRIO PROGETTOQuali sono le figure chiave di un'azienda di successo.Dove ricavare le migliori informazioni finalizzate alla crescita della propria azienda. COME (C)ONCRETIZZARE IL PROPRIO PERCORSOPerch矇 癡 di fondamentale importanza organizzare al meglio sin dall'inizio l'organigramma della propria SRLS.L'importanza delle pre-analisi al fine di massimizzare le probabilit? di riuscita del proprio progetto. COME (S)VILUPPARE LA PROPRIA AZIENDACome ridurre al minimo gli oneri per IVA, IRES e contributi INPS.In che modo i Business Angel rappresentano un'ottima opportunit? di crescita per la propria azienda. L'AUTOREDott. Federico Pampana, nato a Roma nel 1988. Primo di due fratelli in una famiglia totalmente occupata nel mondo del lavoro autonomo. Probabilmente da l穫 parte il suo interesse primordiale alla risoluzione dei problemi di chi fa impresa. Laurea Magistrale in Economia Aziendale conseguita nei tempi previsti con il punteggio di 110. Il suo immediato inserimento nel mondo della libera professione lo ha portato a toccare con mano, sin da subito, le esigenze delle piccole e medie imprese. Abilitato Dottore Commercialista nell'Aprile 2014, si stacca dallo studio professionale di riferimento per puntare a costruire, grazie alle sue competenze ed esperienze nell'ambito economico-aziendale, contabile, fiscale, un nuovo ruolo del Commercialista basato sulla consulenza e l'affiancamento dell'imprenditore a 360簞.
The Strategy Journey
In the digital age, success is increasingly dependent on the ability to transform and join the dots to fill the gaps that exist in your problems along your journey. This requires more data and more people to co-create together to achieve more value, better and faster... Do you want your business and career to survive and soar in the future? Then you must be prepared to evolve and transform how you conduct business and how you personally work by embarking on a journey. A journey of applying strategies designed to teach you how to effectively play 'S.M.A.R.T.' and 'win' in the game of business and career ascension. 'The Strategy Journey' will show you how to navigate the business lifecycle using a framework and methodology. The framework encapsulates five models to represent 'The Strategy Journey' stages: Mission, Business, Value, Operating, and Transformation. Applying these models using the methodology addresses three fundamental scenarios challenging businesses today: Business Design for Disruption, Transformation Operating Models with Service Design, and Managing the Transformation Journey. This book is written with the practitioner in mind. It uses case studies to show the framework in action and is structured for easy reference. Five reusable, data-driven templated canvases support each of the five models to bring the framework to life. All the models in the framework have been designed to apply the three approaches that empower you to achieve effective digital transformation - to be value-driven, customer co-created, and network-connected, while problem solving to overcome your business challenges. This book should be on the desk of every strategist, business owner, entrepreneur, transformation leader, product and service owner, innovator, designer, product manager and architect, and any consultant or coach engaged to facilitate digital transformation, and indeed anyone who wants to help their business and career achieve success on their strategy journeys in the digital economy.
Privatization of Public City Gas Utilities
This book is a study on the Japanese city gas industry, which has been rapidly liberalized in recent years. Especially, it focuses on the background, reasons, methods, and effects of the privatization of publicly owned city gas utilities in Japan. In Japan, after the Great East Japan Earthquake, the liberalization of the electric power and gas business has progressed rapidly. There are a number of studies on the reform of Japan's electricity market, but there are few studies on city gas business. This book describes the state of Japan's public city gas utilities and the necessity of their privatization. And it explains the role of concession as a method of privatization. Then it verifies that the effects of past privatization cases are insufficient. The book also covers deregulation of public utilities in Europe, which triggered Japan's liberalization of its energy and other public utility sectors, and privatization of electricity and gas businesses in India, a developing country in Asia. Finally, this book explores future regulation and business of city gas industry. Pipeline network should be regulated to comply with future unbundling starting from 2022, and gas business altogether with electricity and water businesses need more digitization.
Hybrid Virtual Teams in Shared Services Organizations
Introduction.- Theory: Challenges for Cooperation.- Theory: Solutions to Foster Cooperation.- Method.- Findings: Expression of Contextual Challenges.- Findings: Practices to Foster Cooperation.- Discussion.- Conclusion.
Das Potential Der Pflege-Robotik
Dieses Buch zeigt, wie ein Forschungsprozess mit der Methode der Erkundungsaufstellung erfolgreich gelingen kann. Untersuchungsgegenstand ist hierbei die Pflege-Robotik. Es werden Simulationen mit Erkundungsaufstellungen durchgef羹hrt, die neue Perspektiven auf Einsatz, Risiken und Herausforderungen von Pflege-Robotik er繹ffnen. Das Werk liefert dabei Antworten auf Fragen der Pflege-Robotik im Kontext von Management und Organisationsentwicklung in Pflegeunternehmen: Welche Ma?nahmen beg羹nstigen den Einsatz der Pflege-Robotik? In welchen Wechselwirkungen und Beziehungen stehen die Akteure des Pflegesystems zueinander und welche Auswirkung hat Pflege-Robotik darauf? Der gesamte Erkundungsprozess dieser Arbeit ist durch die Entwicklung von Erkenntnisleitenden Thesen gepr瓣gt, die im Rahmen eines Workshops von Experten*innen diskutiert werden und der Praxis als Gestaltungsempfehlungen dienen.
Decision Making with Quantitative Financial Market Data
Use of quantitative data, especially in financial markets, may provide rapid results due to the ease-of-use and availability of fast computational software, but this book advises caution and helps to understand and avoid potential pitfalls.It deals with often underestimated issues related to the use of financial quantitative data, such as non-stationarity issues, accuracy issues and modeling issues. It provides practical remedies or ways to develop new calculation methodologies to avoid pitfalls in using data, as well as solutions for risk management issues in financial market. The book is intended to help professionals in financial industry to use quantitative data in a safer way.
Birthday Calendar
Botanical Prints 12-Month perpetual birthday calendar book for birthdays, anniversaries, and important dates.Our perpetual birthday calendars measure 8.5x11 in size featuring one page for each month.Use it to track birthdays, anniversaries, special days and holidays.Hardbound book is perfect for home or office as a planner, desk calendar, diary, date keeper, or appointment calendar.Makes a unique Christmas, birthday, New Years, or graduation gift for family and friends.
Birthday Calendar
Van Gogh Flowers 12-Month perpetual birthday calendar book for birthdays, anniversaries, and important dates.Our perpetual birthday calendars measure 8.5x11 in size featuring one page for each month.Use it to track birthdays, anniversaries, special days and holidays.Hardbound book is perfect for home or office as a planner, desk calendar, diary, date keeper, or appointment calendar.Makes a unique Christmas, birthday, New Years, or graduation gift for family and friends.
Birthday Calendar
Van Gogh Paintings 12-Month perpetual birthday calendar book for birthdays, anniversaries, and important dates.Our perpetual birthday calendars measure 8.5x11 in size featuring one page for each month.Use it to track birthdays, anniversaries, special days and holidays.Hardbound book is perfect for home or office as a planner, desk calendar, diary, date keeper, or appointment calendar.Makes a unique Christmas, birthday, New Years, or graduation gift for family and friends.
Creating a Culture of Innovation
Deconstruct the history of patterns of innovation in business and connect them to existing and failed attempts in management consultancies, engineering, web technologies and academic institutions. This book shows you how to create an optimal environment at work for growth and innovation. Many large-scale organizations eventually invest in research and innovation as a dedicated part of their businesses. In doing so, they are faced with two choices: build their own practice of innovation or enact patterns of innovation created before them, ones they perceived as "tried and tested." In this book, you will see how patterns of innovation touch many aspects of a worker's life: from how their work is presented to others, job titles, working environment, and expectations around output. Every chapter will offer a history of these patterns and examples of how they have succeeded and failed within organizations. What You Will LearnIdentify how innovation is named and highlighted in organizationsReveal ways to champion innovation to clients and the outside world, from trade shows and conferences inside the officeUncover ways companies acquire innovation, including incubators or mergersDiscover the conditions for innovation to happen every day, including office layouts, time management, communication structures, and expectation management Who This Book Is ForTech start-up/scale-up founders, management consultants, managing directors, innovation managers and heads of R&D, academic researchers, interior designers, and architects
The Cost
The Cost is for those in the cost engineering field and everyone who is in a manufacturing business: engineers, buyers, sales reps, accountants, operations folks, and business consultants.The Cost is a story of a cost engineering consultant named Doug Benson who does his best to help companies understand and improve cost. When Doug arrives at Electronica, the company is on a verge of bankruptcy and hardly even knows why. He must use all his cost engineering knowledge and leadership skills amidst some considerable corporate drama all the while fighting his own personal demons in order to give Electronica a chance. The type of situations that he finds himself in are happening all over the world every day and the results are often dramatic with people losing jobs, stakeholders losing millions of dollars, and communities losing hope.The Cost is not only for those in the cost engineering field. This book is for everyone in a manufacturing business. It is for engineers, buyers, sales reps, accountants, operations folks, and business consultants. This book is also for anyone that is leading a business and has the power to employ cost engineering to make their company successful.
Stochastische Leistungsanalyse Von Lagersystemen
Diese Monographie pr瓣sentiert neue Ans瓣tze zur effizienten stochastischen Leistungsanalyse gro?er Lagersysteme bei fahrtzeitoptimierten Einzelspielen, die die Grundlage f羹r die bedarfsgerechte Auslegung der f繹rdertechnischen Grenzdurchsatzleistung bildet. Nach einer Einf羹hrung in die methodischen Grundlagen und den Stand der Forschung zur stochastischen Leistungsanalyse automatisierter Lagersysteme werden verschiedene Verfahren entwickelt, die das Optimierungspotential fahrtzeitbezogener Ein- und Auslagerstrategien vollst瓣ndig abbilden k繹nnen. In einer umfangreichen experimentellen Untersuchung werden die Effizienz und die Genauigkeit der Verfahren sowie die deutlich durchsatzsteigernde Wirkung der fahrtzeitoptimierenden Strategien nachgewiesen. Nach dem Studium der Wirtschaftsmathematik und des Operations Research an der Technischen Hochschule Mittelhessen und der Technischen Universit瓣t Clausthal arbeitet Anja He?ler seit 2014 als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut f羹r Wirtschaftswissenschaft der Technischen Universit瓣t Clausthal. Ihre Lehr- und Forschungsgebiete sind das Operations Management, das Supply Chain Management und die stochastische Leistungsanalyse.
The Pharmagellan Guide to Biotech Forecasting and Valuation
If you're a biotech executive, investor, deal maker, entrepreneur, or adviser--or aspire to be one--then you need to know how to build and analyze forecasts and valuation models of R&D-stage drugs. THE PHARMAGELLAN GUIDE TO BIOTECH FORECASTING AND VALUATION is a comprehensive, thoroughly referenced handbook to creating and interpreting financial models for early-stage biopharma assets and companies. - Vetted benchmarks for key drivers of income, expenses, and valuation. - Proprietary analyses by Pharmagellan's experienced consulting team. - More than 150 current references from peer-reviewed research, industry white papers, and SEC filings. Whether you're making investment decisions, pitching to potential partners or funders, or assessing your own R&D program, this is the one-stop guide you need by your side.
Strategic Information System Agility
Ensuring an efficient and agile information system in organizations is a real challenge. Only an agile IT strategy can underpin this. Strategic Information System Agility offers methodological and practical support to achieve effective IT agility in complex and dynamic environments.
The Everyday Project Manager
The best organizations, and even the best departments within organizations, have a roadmap: a clear vision of where they would like to be and the means by which they will get there. This roadmap drives the everyday activity of the company, as well as any change it makes both internally and externally . . . and it is what drives projects.
Indikatoren F羹r Die Messung Von Forschung, Entwicklung Und Innovation
Diese Open-Access-Publikation diskutiert unterschiedliche Ans瓣tze zur Messung von Forschung, Entwicklung und Innovation in Unternehmen, Hochschulen und staatlichen Forschungsinstituten. In Form von Steckbriefen beschreibt sie die wichtigsten Eigenschaften und Anwendungsgebiete von 羹ber 180 Indikatoren. Dabei werden die Gebiete, aus denen die Indikatoren stammen (Publikationen, Patente usw.), kurz vorgestellt, wobei auf die wichtigsten Aspekte, die bei der Anwendung zu beachten sind, verwiesen wird. Zu jedem Indikator wird mindestens eine Literaturquelle angegeben, die eine vertiefte Betrachtung des Ansatzes erm繹glicht.
Facilities Manager’s Desk Reference
A practical guide to the principle services of facilities management, revised and updated The updated third edition of Facilities Manager's Desk Reference is an invaluable resource covering all the principal facility management (FM) services. The author--a noted facilities management expert--provides the information needed to ensure compliance to current laws, to deliver opportunities to adopt new ways of using built environments, and to identify creative ways to reduce operational occupancy costs, while maintaining appropriate and productive working environment standards. The third edition is fully updated and written in an approachable and concise format. It is comprehensive in scope, the author covering both hard and soft facilities management issues. Since the first edition was published it has become a first point of reference for busy facilities managers, saving them time by providing access to the information needed to ensure the safe, effective and efficient running of any facilities function. This important book: Has been fully updated, reviewing the essential data covering the principal FM services Is highly practical, ideal for the busy FM practitioner Presents information on legal compliance issues, the development of strategic policies, tactical best practices, and much more Is a time-saving resource that brings together essential, useful, and practical FM information in one handy volume; Written for students and professional facilities managers, Facilities Manager's Desk Reference is designed as a practical resource that offers FMs assistance in finding solutions to the myriad demands of the job.
Strategischer Dienstleistungseinkauf
Dieses Buch stellt der Einkaufspraxis einen systematischen Handlungsleitfaden zur Formulierung und Implementierung von Strategien im Dienstleistungseinkauf zur Verf羹gung. F羹r die strategische Ausrichtung des Supply Managements in der Beschaffung von Dienstleistungen und Services bildet die 15M-Architektur den strukturellen Rahmen. Entsprechend werden Dienstleistungen innerhalb der Rahmenstrategie des Einkaufs positioniert. Auf dieser Basis k繹nnen Marktstrategien f羹r wichtige Dienstleistungskategorien und Lieferanten- bzw. Dienstleisterstrategien formuliert sowie die Beschaffungsprozesse ausgerichtet werden. Abschlie?end wird das Einkaufscontrolling mit der Entwicklung von dienstleistungsspezifischen Zielgr繹?en und Kennzahlen beschrieben. Das Buch hilft Eink瓣ufern dabei, mit den besonderen Herausforderungen bei der Beschaffung von industriellen Dienstleistungen und Services besser umgehen zu k繹nnen.
Beschaffungskompetenzen 4.0
Obwohl der prozentuale Kostenanteil beschaffter G羹ter aufgrund des Outsourcing-Trends stetig zugenommen hat, wurde die Beschaffung lange Zeit in Theorie und Praxis vernachl瓣ssigt. Mit der vierten industriellen Revolution (Industrie 4.0) hat sie jedoch die einzigartige M繹glichkeit, ihr volles Potential zu nutzen und ihre strategische Relevanz auszubauen, wenn sie die richtigen Kompetenzen entwickelt.Ausgehend von den aktuellen Beschaffungsaufgaben stellt dieses Buch methodisch drei Kompetenzprofile vor, die eine Grundlage f羹r die Entwicklung zuk羹nftiger Berufsbilder in der Beschaffung 4.0 bilden. Es zeigt anschaulich, auf welche Weise sich die heutigen Aufgaben, Anforderungen sowie Kompetenzen in der Beschaffung mit der digitalen Transformation ver瓣ndern werden und leitet einen konkreten Handlungsbedarf zur St瓣rkung der Beschaffung im digitalen Zeitalter ab.
Management Digitaler Plattformen
Digitale Plattformen sind mittlerweile ein in vielerlei Hinsicht erforschtes Ph瓣nomen. So existieren Beitr瓣ge der betriebswirtschaftlichen Forschung zu so unterschiedlichen Facetten wie Skalierungsstrategien, Pricing oder dem Wettbewerb zwischen digitalen Plattformen. Dennoch besteht ein Bedarf an Beitr瓣gen, die den bisherigen Stand der Forschung nicht nur referieren, sondern sich insbesondere an einer ?bersetzungsleistungsleistung versuchen. Sie tragen dazu bei, den oft beobachteten "implementation gap" zu 羹berwinden. Dieses Sonderheft gibt daher einen ?berblick 羹ber den derzeitigen Stand der Forschung zu digitalen Plattformen und behandelt sie aus industrie繹konomischer Perspektive. Dabei widmet es sich unter anderem Feedbacksystemen als wichtigen Steuerungsmechanismus digitaler Plattformen. Einen weiteren Schwerpunkt bilden zwei Fallstudien von Business-to-Business Plattformen, in denen neben den Herausforderungen, auch konkrete L繹sungsans瓣tze aufgezeigt und Einblicke in das Vorgehendieser Plattformen in verschiedenen Entwicklungsstufen er繹rtert werden.
Mutterschaft Und Wissenschaft
​Dieses Buch versammelt Stimmen von Wissenschaftlerin*innen, die sich in sehr pers繹nlichen Texten mit dem Thema "Kinder haben oder nicht haben (wollen)" auseinandersetzen. Dabei kreuzen sich Identit瓣tspositionen verschiedener Herrschaftsverh瓣ltnisse und f羹hren zu Kollisionen im Privaten und ?ffentlichen: Die Autor*innen schreiben 羹ber ihre Erfahrungen als Selbstoptimierer*innen, Professor*innen, Aktivist*innen, Haush瓣lter*innen, Partner*innen, Pendler*innen, T繹chter, Lebensk羹nstler*innen, Jongleur*innen und Feminist*innen und 羹ber die (Un)M繹glichkeiten, all das auf einmal zu sein. Dar羹ber hinaus thematisieren und hinterfragen sie auf vielf瓣ltige Art das noch immer vorherrschende Mutterbild in Deutschland. Die Texte kommen aus verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen - aus MINT-F瓣chern ebenso wie aus Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften sowie aus der Kunst. Die drei Herausgeberinnen sind in der Wissenschaft t瓣tige M羹tter.
Digital Disruption
This book goes beyond the hype, delving into real world technologies and applications that are driving our future and examines the possible impact these changes will have on industries, economies and society at large. It details the actions governments and regulators must take in order to ensure these changes bring about positive benefits to the public without stifling innovation that may well be the future source of value creation. It examines how organisations in a world of digital ecosystems, where industry boundaries are blurring, must undertake radical digital transformation to survive and thrive in this new digital world. The reader is taken through a framework that critically examines (i) Digital Connectivity including 5G and IoT; (ii) Data Capture and Distribution which includes smart connected verticals; (iii) Data Integrity, Control and Tokenisation that includes cyber security, digital signatures, blockchain, smart contracts, digital assets and cryptocurrencies; (iv) Data Processing and Artificial Intelligence; and (v) Disruptive Applications which include platforms, virtual and augmented reality, drones, autonomous vehicles, digital twins and digital assistants.
Data Privacy and Trust in Cloud Computing
This open access book brings together perspectives from multiple disciplines including psychology, law, IS, and computer science on data privacy and trust in the cloud. Cloud technology has fueled rapid, dramatic technological change, enabling a level of connectivity that has never been seen before in human history. However, this brave new world comes with problems. Several high-profile cases over the last few years have demonstrated cloud computing's uneasy relationship with data security and trust. This volume explores the numerous technological, process and regulatory solutions presented in academic literature as mechanisms for building trust in the cloud, including GDPR in Europe. The massive acceleration of digital adoption resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic is introducing new and significant security and privacy threats and concerns. Against this backdrop, this book provides a timely reference and organising framework for considering how we will assure privacy and build trust in such a hyper-connected digitally dependent world. This book presents a framework for assurance and accountability in the cloud and reviews the literature on trust, data privacy and protection, and ethics in cloud computing.
Optimization Under Stochastic UncertaintyMethods, Control and Random Search Methods
This book examines application and methods to incorporating stochastic parameter variations into the optimization process to decrease expense in corrective measures. Basic types of deterministic substitute problems occurring mostly in practice involve i) minimization of the expected primary costs subject to expected recourse cost constraints (reliability constraints) and remaining deterministic constraints, e.g. box constraints, as well as ii) minimization of the expected total costs (costs of construction, design, recourse costs, etc.) subject to the remaining deterministic constraints.After an introduction into the theory of dynamic control systems with random parameters, the major control laws are described, as open-loop control, closed-loop, feedback control and open-loop feedback control, used for iterative construction of feedback controls. For approximate solution of optimization and control problems with random parameters and involving expected cost/loss-type objective, constraint functions, Taylor expansion procedures, and Homotopy methods are considered, Examples and applications to stochastic optimization of regulators are given. Moreover, for reliability-based analysis and optimal design problems, corresponding optimization-based limit state functions are constructed. Because of the complexity of concrete optimization/control problems and their lack of the mathematical regularity as required of Mathematical Programming (MP) techniques, other optimization techniques, like random search methods (RSM) became increasingly important.Basic results on the convergence and convergence rates of random search methods are presented. Moreover, for the improvement of the - sometimes very low - convergence rate of RSM, search methods based on optimal stochastic decision processes are presented. In order to improve the convergence behavior of RSM, the random search procedure is embedded into a stochastic decision process for an optimal control ofthe probability distributions of the search variates (mutation random variables).
Technology Entrepreneurship
This second edition of the critically acclaimed core textbook provides students from technology and science based backgrounds with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to transform innovative ideas into commercially viable businesses for profit or social ends. Blending theory, policy and practice in a manner that is accessible to readers with little prior knowledge of business commercialisation, it offers a framework for understanding the entrepreneurial process for technological ideas. The book provides students with comprehensive guidance on the specialized field of 'technopreneurship'. It provides the tools and frameworks required for managing, commercialising and marketing technological innovation. With real life examples and case studies from a range of countries and industries, it will equip students with the understanding required to successfully launch their product. This text caters for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying technology entrepreneurship modules on engineering, science and computing technology programmes. New to this edition: -All chapters updated to reflect the evolution of theory and practice in the field -New cases on digital entrepreneurship, growth and scaling-Extended geographical coverage of case studies-Entrepreneurial practices updated to include recent research-Strategic context of business models, business growth and scaling, digital entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial marketing, organization design and crowdfunding developed and updated.
Modelling in Mathematical Programming
This book provides basic tools for learning how to model in mathematical programming, from models without much complexity to complex system models. It presents a unique methodology for the building of an integral mathematical model, as well as new techniques that help build under own criteria. It allows readers to structure models from the elements and variables to the constraints, a basic modelling guide for any system with a new scheme of variables, a classification of constraints and also a set of rules to model specifications stated as logical propositions, helping to better understand models already existing in the literature. It also presents the modelling of all possible objectives that may arise in optimization problems regarding the variables values.The book is structured to guide the reader in an orderly manner, learning of the components that the methodology establishes in an optimization problem. The system includes the elements, which are all the actors that participate in the system, decision activities that occur in the system, calculations based on the decision activities, specifications such as regulations, impositions or actions of defined value and objective criterion, which guides the resolution of the system.
Multicriteria Portfolio Construction with Python
This book covers topics in portfolio management and multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA), presenting a transparent and unified methodology for the portfolio construction process. The most important feature of the book includes the proposed methodological framework that integrates two individual subsystems, the portfolio selection subsystem and the portfolio optimization subsystem. An additional highlight of the book includes the detailed, step-by-step implementation of the proposed multicriteria algorithms in Python. The implementation is presented in detail; each step is elaborately described, from the input of the data to the extraction of the results. Algorithms are organized into small cells of code, accompanied by targeted remarks and comments, in order to help the reader to fully understand their mechanics. Readers are provided with a link to access the source code through GitHub.This Work may also be considered as a reference which presents the state-of-art research on portfolio construction with multiple and complex investment objectives and constraints. The book consists of eight chapters. A brief introduction is provided in Chapter 1. The fundamental issues of modern portfolio theory are discussed in Chapter 2. In Chapter 3, the various multicriteria decision aid methods, either discrete or continuous, are concisely described. In Chapter 4, a comprehensive review of the published literature in the field of multicriteria portfolio management is considered. In Chapter 5, an integrated and original multicriteria portfolio construction methodology is developed. Chapter 6 presents the web-based information system, in which the suggested methodological framework has been implemented. In Chapter 7, the experimental application of the proposed methodology is discussed and in Chapter 8, the authors provide overall conclusions.The readership of the book aims to be a diverse group, including fund managers, risk managers, investment advisors, bankers, private investors, analytics scientists, operations researchers scientists, and computer engineers, to name just several. Portions of the book may be used as instructional for either advanced undergraduate or post-graduate courses in investment analysis, portfolio engineering, decision science, computer science, or financial engineering.
Jumpstart to Digital Procurement
This book shows how digital transformation has the power to revolutionize the way procurement operates, and discusses how especially buyer decisions are empowered through artificial intelligence. Depending on a company's strategy all desired outcomes are possible, including doubling savings, innovation, sustainability, quality, speed, and halve the risk. Jumpstart to Digital Procurement is a hands-on guide on how companies can grasp the opportunities offered by digital transformation.
Patent Management
This book provides an overview of the common concepts and building blocks of patent management. It addresses executives in the areas of innovation, R & D, patent and intellectual property management as well as academics and students.The authors give valuable information on the characteristics of patent and intellectual property management, based on the collaboration with companies and organizations from Europe, China, Japan, Argentina, Brazil, India, Canada and the US.A reference for managers who want to bring information technology innovation with a clear intellectual property strategy to the market. A very readable book. Thomas Landolt, Managing Director, IBMA really comprehensive, all-in book about Patents - strategy, value, management and commercialization. And not forgetting what they are for - foster innovation.Dr. Joerg Thomaier, Head of IP Bayer Group
Design and Management of Interfirm Networks
Part I . FRANCHISE Networks .- Innovation and Plural Form.- Peer Trust in Franchise Networks.- Business Model Innovation in Franchising.- Organizational Innovation and Microfranchising.- Competitive Advantage through CSR.- Institutional Influences and Competitiveness.- Principles of Fair Franchise Advisory Councils.- Location Decision Model for Franchisees.- Part II .COOPERATIVES.- Horizon and Portfolio Investments Constraints.- Member Heterogeneity and Cooperative Exit.- Cooperatives in Modern Food Supply Chainsl.- Hybrids in the French Apple Industry.- Part III . ALLIANCES.- Collocation for Supplier-Client Knowledge-basedCoordination.- Tensions and Governance in Industry-UniversityAlliances.- Co-evolution of Clusters and Trans-Local Linkages.- Cluster Cooperation and Value Creation.- Exports, FDI or Strategic Alliances?.- Public Private Partnerships in the Healthcare Sector.
Omni-Channel Retail and the Supply Chain
This book describes the impact of omni-channel marketing on the supply chain and logistics functions and is intended to help management meet the needs of not only today's ever changing world but to anticipate what may be required in the future to achieve superior customer service, profitability, and a competitive advantage.
Digital Responses to Covid-19
This book presents ten essays that examine the potential of digital responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The essays explore new digital concepts for learning and teaching, provide an overview of organizational responses to the crisis through digital technologies, and examine digital solutions developed to manage the crisis. Scientists from many disciplines work together in the fight against the virus and its numerous consequences. This book explores how information systems researchers can contribute to these global efforts. The book will be of interest to researchers and scholars in the field of digital business and education.
Beyond EHR
Today, it is not uncommon for practices and hospitals to be on their second or third EHR and/or contemplating a transition from the traditional on-premise model to a cloud-based system. As a follow-up to Complete Guide and Toolkit to Successful EHR Adoption ((c)2011 HIMSS), this book builds on the best practices of the first edition, fast-forwarding to the latest innovations that are currently leveraged and adopted by providers and hospitals. We examine the role that artificial intelligence (AI) is now playing in and around EHR technology. We also address the advances in analytics and deep learning (also known as deep structured or hierarchical learning) and explain this topic in practical ways for even the most novice reader to comprehend and apply. The challenges of EHR to EHR migrations and data conversions will also be covered, including the use of the unethical practice of data blocking used as a tactic by some vendors to hold data hostage. Further, we explore innovations related to interoperability, cloud computing, cyber security, and electronic patient/consumer engagement. Finally, this book will deal with what to do with aging technology and databases, which is an issue rarely considered in any of the early publications on healthcare technology. What is the proper way to retire a legacy system, and what are the legal obligations of data archiving? Though a lot has changed since the 2011 edition, many of the fundamentals remain the same and will serve as a foundation for the next generation of EHR adopters and/or those moving on to their second, third, fourth, and beyond EHRs.
Telling Your Data Story
The Data Whisperer's practical guide to explaining and understanding the strategic value of data management. The need for data management is everywhere across your company. The value of every digitally transformative customer-facing initiative, every data science and analytics-based project, every as-a-service offering, every foray into e-commerce, and every enterprise software implementation is inextricably linked to the successful output of data management efforts. Although it is a simple function of garbage in garbage out, that slogan rarely drives any sustainable executive action. We need to tell a better data story. Data Storytelling is probably the hottest non-technical trend in the technology-related space. But it does not directly support data management because it is focused on analytics or telling stories with data. So, it is time to expand the realm of Data Storytelling to recognize the role of data management by telling stories about data. Learn how to secure stakeholder involvement and executive commitment to fund and support data management as a systematic, consistent, fundamental part of your business. This book is for: Data management leaders trying to explain your value to C-Level and business stakeholders. As a practitioner, you may already know how to fix your data, but your business leaders ignore your advice. When you explain data management to the business, they may nod "yes" on the outside, but they nod off on the inside.Business stakeholders trying to comprehend why data management is important. Many business people may be frightened, threatened, intimidated, or at the very least confused and bewildered by the techno-babble often associated with data-related conversations. If you want to know more about why data management needs to be a strategic imperative in your organization, you'll learn it here in simple terms.Data scientists looking to understand better how you connect to "The Business." A recurring struggle I hear from data scientists is the need to get "closer to business." If you are a data scientist, then you need to understand your company's data story. The more you can align your work to the core value your company delivers, the more successful you will be. This book will help you discover the essence of why data brings value to your business.Anyone interested in understanding the business value of data management. I offer simple explanations about why data management is essential for your organization. Without going deep into technical concepts and processes, I focus on the business-related outputs. I share ways you can think about what foundational data does. Its importance is vital for the future of your enterprise.Since this is a book about telling data stories, I share it through stories divided into five sections: My data story. Why I know what I know and why you should listen to me.Everyone's data story. A collection of classic, foundational data situations relevant to all enterprises.Framing your data story. A set of simple frameworks about data value.Selling your data story. Tips on creating a compelling narrative.Building your data story. Why you must align with the strategic intentions of your enterprise.
Closing the Gap
Closing the Gap is an accessible overview of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) and the impact it is set to have on various sectors in South Africa and Africa. It explores the previous industrial revolutions that have led up to this point and outlines what South Africa's position has been through each one.With a focus on artificial intelligence as a core concept in understanding the 4IR, this book uses familiar concepts to explain artificial intelligence, how it works and how it can be used in banking, mining, medicine and many other fields.Written from an African perspective, Closing the Gap addresses the challenges and fears around the 4IR by pointing to the opportunities presented by new technologies and outlining some of the challenges and successes to date.
Dynamic Quality Models and Games in Digital Supply Chains
This book bridges the fields of Supply Chain Management, Digital Transformation, and Dynamic Quality models in order to illustrate how digital transformation affects the work of researchers and managers in Supply Chain Quality problems. It aims to address the gap in scholarship regarding new technologies, updating the established literature to reimagine theoretical models, dynamic games, knowledge management, supply chain coordination solutions, interfaces in circular economies, and other functional spaces for a digital era. Written for researchers, managers, and practitioners, this book offers an accessible approach to the topics through clear, management-oriented chapters, reserving mathematical background for the Appendices. It discusses an array of modern challenges in digitization, including smart device installation, Cloud data accessibility, applications of AI systems, Supply Chain monitoring via Blockchains, using sensors in operations, and digital tool integration within traditional IS frameworks.
Adapt or Die
If you sell physical products, warehousing and shipping costs can make or break your business.But most companies treat order fulfillment like an afterthought, running headlong toward a future in which they won't be able to compete with marketplace giants.In Adapt or Die, Jeremy Bodenhamer paints a compelling picture of waste and lost profits, including case studies in which one wrong move in something as simple as packaging can send a company into the red.Fortunately, there's a better way. By embracing end-to-end automation, companies can ensure that every item sold is shipped quickly and efficiently, in the smallest possible package, through the best-priced carrier, restoring critical savings to your bottom line.And you don't have to be Amazon to do it. Whether you're an e-commerce executive, retailer, manufacturer, or distributor, pick up Adapt or Die to learn how small to mid-sized businesses are taking on the five giants of the shipping industry-and winning.
Adapt or Die
If you sell physical products, warehousing and shipping costs can make or break your business.But most companies treat order fulfillment like an afterthought, running headlong toward a future in which they won't be able to compete with marketplace giants.In Adapt or Die, Jeremy Bodenhamer paints a compelling picture of waste and lost profits, including case studies in which one wrong move in something as simple as packaging can send a company into the red.Fortunately, there's a better way. By embracing end-to-end automation, companies can ensure that every item sold is shipped quickly and efficiently, in the smallest possible package, through the best-priced carrier, restoring critical savings to your bottom line.And you don't have to be Amazon to do it. Whether you're an e-commerce executive, retailer, manufacturer, or distributor, pick up Adapt or Die to learn how small to mid-sized businesses are taking on the five giants of the shipping industry-and winning.
Beautiful Flower Blank NoteBook
VanHelsing DayPlanner's & NoteBooks are unique and truly exquisite; creating a personal connection which brings beauty to every day of your life. This 6" X 9" beautifully bound hardcover, 150 page blank notebook, is a piece that you are sure to become attached to; as the guardian of your deepest thoughts and of the details that make you special, these books are sure to please. This design is also available in Paperback, as well as both Hardcover and Paperback lined NoteBooks and DayPlanner's.
Corporate Real Estate Management
Thomas Glatte provides a comprehensive view on the essentials of corporate real estate management (CREM). The author explains in the influence of corporate strategies on real estate strategies for non-property-companies as well as the importance of corporate real estate portfolios, the set-up of CREM organizations and the handling of respective services. He also elaborates the specifics of corporate social responsibility, sustainability, corporate architecture & design and workplace management.
Kreative Methoden Im Business Coaching
​Coaching ist h瓣ufig ein vom Dialog gepr瓣gter Prozess: Anliegen, Probleme, Herausforderungen, L繹sungsans瓣tze und weitere Schritte, all das wird meist in Form einer Konversation bearbeitet, die Auseinandersetzung ist stark linkshirnig gepr瓣gt, also auf Sprache, Fakten, Logik ausgerichtet. Um Ver瓣nderungsprozesse im Coaching nachhaltig zu unterst羹tzen, also sichtbar und greifbar zu machen, bedarf es der Aktivierung, der bildhaften Vorstellung, der Einbindung von Emotion und K繹rper. Dieses Essential liefert eine Auswahl an Methoden entlang des Coaching-Prozesses und bezieht dabei auch Digitales Coaching mit ein.
The Digitalization of the 21st Century Supply Chain
Digitization has touched upon all aspects of supply chains with human factors largely ignored.
Systems Engineering in Research and Industrial Practice
Introduction to the Book.- Fundamentals of Systems Engineering - A Practitioner's Approach.- New Challenges for Ideation in the Context of Systems Engineering.- System of Systems Modelling.- Traceability in Engineer-to-Order Businesses.- Decision Analysis and Interface Management in Systems Engineering.- Mechatronic and Cyber-Physical Systems within the Domain of the Internet of Things.- Emergence of Product-Service-Systems.- A Meta-Model for Intelligent Engineering Design of Complex City.- Systematic Development of Product-Service Systems.- Machining Process Engineering.- Technology Nationalization in the Space Sector: The Brazilian Perspective.- Systems Engineering for Sustainable Mobility.- Future Perspectives in Systems Engineering.
Energy Economics
This book provides an updated and expanded overview of basic concepts of energy economics and explains how simple economic tools can be used to analyse contemporary energy issues in the light of recent developments, such as the Paris Agreement, the UN Sustainable Development Goals and new technological developments in the production and use of energy. The new edition is divided into four parts covering concepts, issues, markets, and governance. Although the content has been thoroughly revised and rationalised to reflect the current state of knowledge, it retains the main features of the first edition, namely accessibility, research-informed presentation, and extensive use of charts, tables and worked examples.This easily accessible reference book allows readers to gain the skills required to understand and analyse complex energy issues from an economic perspective. It is a valuable resource for students and researchers in the field of energy economics, as well as interested readers with an interdisciplinary background.
Business Research Methods
Quite frequently these days people talk of research, both in academic institutions and outside. Several research studies are undertaken and accomplished year after year. But in most cases very little attention is paid to an important dimension relating to research, namely, that of research methodology. The result is that much of research, particularly in social sciences, contains endless word-spinning and too many quotations. Thus a great deal of research tends to be futile. It may be noted, in the context of planning and development, that the significance of research lies in its quality and not in quantity.This book provides detailed information about the finance and finance related area with simple language and the concepts are explained with easy examples. This book is also prepared based on the B.Com., B.B.A., B.B.M., M.Com., and M.B.A. syllabus of various universities for the benefits of the students.
Seven Essentials of Supplier Quality Management A Concise Guide
2 special gifts for the reader - read more to find out: -Today, more than ever before, all man-made product goes through a few tiers of manufacturing entity connected by logistic and transportation are known as the supply chain. Company profitability heavily relies on the quality of material received from the supplier. Imagine an organization have a customer who is ready to buy the product however there is no material to transform the product into sales. Almost all supplier delivery problem is associated with the supplier having quality issues which had caused limited supply or poor quality product. It is almost impossible to turn poor quality materials into good quality products. Therefore, most successful companies put high importance on supplier quality management. This book focuses on a systematic approach in 7 essentials of area supplier quality to achieve defect-free product from supplier process. This single system will help to reduce variation in managing different suppliers which also leads to consistent results. In turn, this will enable an organization to receive consistent good quality part to feed the manufacturing process can convert the parts into sales and revenue. Bonus content to how to manage supplier remotely which is important at the current lock down situation is also included in this book.The book is designed to be concise for the reader to quickly understand and apply this system immediately. There is a total of 16 figures and 5 tables to summarize a large amount of information which enhance the reading experience of this book. The author had included two exclusive gifts on how to build an audit checklist and excel format sample checklist for the reader of this book.
Managing Emotions in Organizations
This book takes a fresh perspective to acquisition research, focusing on employee emotions. It builds on the human-centric approach to mergers and acquisitions, where previous literature has concluded that emotions are important, yet few studies have explored them in depth. To fill the gap, this book takes emotion research in organizations as its starting point, exploring what emotions are, how they emerge, and how they influence organizational contexts, such as acquisitions. Whereas previous acquisition literature has concluded that emotions are most often negative and lead to complications, this book shows how emotions can become a positive force driving post-acquisition change and unification. This book combines multidisciplinary theoretical insights with practical real-world case studies to provide detailed analysis and approachable findings that will appeal to academics and practitioners alike.
The 7 Fundamentals to Create and Sustain a Successful Knowledge Sharing Organization
As digital business strategies continue to evolve, corporate leaders and information system professionals are attempting to develop a successful workforce knowledge sharing system designed to enhance employee collaboration, innovation, and productivity in today's fluctuating, multigenerational environment. The 7 Fundamentals to Create and Sustain a Successful Knowledge Sharing Organization reports findings discovered through a case study of a multinational corporation, referred to as Aerospace Inc., specializing in the design, manufacture, and delivery of aerospace products. This case study explores an internally developed social networking tool used by Aerospace Inc. to deliver online collaboration capabilities to employees globally. As a result, seven vital components were identified to create and sustain a successful knowledge sharing organization. REVIEWS "Sharing knowledge and learning are social activities. Dr. Patricia Pedraza-Nafziger shows how the combination of sound KM fundamentals and social media will improve the exchange of knowledge to accelerate learning. Leaders are provided with practical examples of what is needed to drive engagement across generations. The 7 Fundamentals to Create and Sustain a Successful Knowledge Sharing Organization provides a wake-up call for smart leaders to leverage and grow their experts while retaining young talent."- Cindy Hubert, Executive Director of Client Solutions, American Productivity and Quality Center (APQC), and Author of The New Edge in Knowledge: How KM is Changing the Way We Do Business "Patricia leads the reader into a forest of issues associated with workforce social networking, and out the other side, to knowledge sharing benefits that can shine on a corporation if these seven fundamentals are addressed; she accomplishes this using candid inputs from actual practitioners." - Tim Bridges, former Knowledge Management Executive, and Contributing Author to Project Management Institute and Harvard Business Review.
